India’s freedom struggle produced many extraordinary leaders, but few combined intellectual brilliance, political courage, spiritual depth and an unwavering commitment to Hindu-Muslim unity as profoundly as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. A freedom
Protests erupted across multiple Indonesian cities overnight, far beyond the capital, Jakarta, as demonstrators ignored President Prabowo Subianto’s call for calm, Bloomberg reports. The unrest was particularly severe in the eastern city
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President Vladimir Putin has outlined the deepening alliance between Russia and China, highlighting their shared historical legacy and common vision for a multipolar global order, in a written interview with Xinhua News
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen escalated her rhetoric against Russia on Friday, describing President Vladimir Putin as a “predator” and invoking NATO’s warnings about a Russian threat to justify the
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In recent days, a Track-II academic dialogue meditated so-called Towards Unity and Trust has become the centre of a brouhaha with former U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad misunderstanding the scholarly exercise as a
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts from an in-depth interview conducted by Christian Smith with George Friedman, chairman and founder of Geopolitical Futures. The interview explores the geopolitical implications
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The Chairman of the State Bank of India recently stated that the corporate sector in India now holds significant cash balances. He further noted that internal estimates of the State Bank of
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Editor’s note: The following excerpts are taken from a longer article originally published on the author’s official LinkedIn page. Since 7 October 2023, a brutal war between Israel and Hamas, initiated by
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Trump’s bid to derail BRICS through tariffs is backfiring badly. Instead of pressuring India, China, and Brazil to distance themselves from Russia and crawl back to Washington to “kiss Trump’s ass,” his
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Editor’s Note: This article, by nature of the topic, may include language that is considered sensitive and/or vulgar to some readers. Night after night, the buses pull up on the tarmac outside
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As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade. Speculation swirls about which world leaders will join President Xi Jinping—Putin’s presence
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Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes radically transformed, sometimes strikingly faithful to their origins. These revived states—polities that
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On a crisp April morning in Beijing, what should have been a ceremonial display of unity within China’s armed forces turned into a glaring signal of turmoil at the top of the
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India’s Chief of Air Staff A.P. Singh has urged caution over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to restructure the armed forces into theater commands, warning that such a drastic overhaul may
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In the early 1980s, former US President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm. At a reception he approached Stig Ramel, the long-serving executive director of the Nobel Foundation, and asked with some bitterness why
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